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re: Has LSU tweaked the colors?
Posted on 5/18/15 at 8:39 am to Biggmatt78
Posted on 5/18/15 at 8:39 am to Biggmatt78
quote:Someone has really screwed up the disc golf display. Y'all miss Randy.
I work at the Alexandria academy
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Posted on 5/18/15 at 8:55 am to semjase
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When you see the Purple, Gold and Green Mardi Gras colors every year, you're seeing the origin of the LSU "Canary Yellow" shade of Gold.
Or Paul Dietzel changed the color because he felt like it would stand out better in the new age of college football being broadcast in color to national audiences.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 9:02 am to lsu02150
No when I went to LSU they were really Purple & Gold. Not yellow. I am an old fort but u had better look it up. It only went yellow about 35 years ago! 
Posted on 5/18/15 at 9:21 am to cajunjj
quote:A little longer than 35 years old man
I am an old fort but u had better look it up. It only went yellow about 35 years ago!
Posted on 5/18/15 at 11:36 am to Ponchy Tiger
LSU's official colors are purple and goldenrod. It's a more yellow-looking gold, but gold nonetheless, just like the color's botanical namesake:
Posted on 5/18/15 at 1:38 pm to semjase
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There was no Green ribbon in stock at the store, so the LSU contingent bought all the P&G. Tulane subsequently purchased the Green ribbon.
So how did Tulane buy the green ribbon if it was sold out?
Posted on 5/18/15 at 1:46 pm to coopsdad
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So how did Tulane buy the green ribbon if it was sold out?
Stop nit picking a feel good LSU urban legend. 
Posted on 5/18/15 at 1:53 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Stop nit picking a feel good LSU urban legend.
Then please tell us how the official colors became Purple and Gold.
This is the official statement from the LSU website. The fact is that no one is 100% certain.
quote:
The “History” of LSU's
Purple and Gold
There is some discrepancy in the origin of Royal Purple and Old Gold as LSU's official colors. Below is the most widely accepted scenario:
It is believed that the colors were worn for the first time by an LSU team in the spring of 1893 when the LSU baseball squad beat Tulane in the first intercollegiate contest played in any sport by Louisiana State University. Team captain E.B. Young reportedly handpicked those colors for the LSU squad.
Later that year, the first football game was played. On Nov. 25, 1893, football coach/chemistry professor Charles Coates and some of his players went into town to purchase ribbon to adorn their gray jerseys as they prepared to play the first LSU gridiron game.
Stores were stocking ribbons in the colors of Mardi Gras -- purple, gold and green. -- for the coming Carnival season. However, none of the green had yet arrived at Reymond's Store at the corner of Third and Main streets. Coates and quarterback Ruffin Pleasant bought up all of the purple and gold stock and made it into rosettes and badges.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 1:57 pm to SG_Geaux
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Then please tell us how the official colors became Purple and Gold.
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The fact is that no one is 100% certain.
I'll assume your statement was rhetorical. Don't get mad. It's a nice story. Believe it. There may be some truth to it. I was laughing at the Tulane portion of the legend, which assumed that Tulane got their green color at the same time (despite of course their official colors being non-green for about another 40 years or so).
Posted on 5/18/15 at 1:57 pm to SG_Geaux
Gold looks way better than yellow and the purple w/ more red in it is better as well than the blue-purple we're using IMO
but really, what are you gonna do 
but really, what are you gonna do
Posted on 5/18/15 at 5:35 pm to Ponchy Tiger
I'd just be happy if the purple on our football jerseys matched the purple on our helmets. Not that hard to do.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 5:44 pm to bgtiger
How did I get a down vote? I'm the only one who used a fact about LSU's athletic color scheme in his post.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 6:46 pm to bgtiger
Aw
Posted on 5/18/15 at 6:47 pm to bgtiger
LSU's colors are old Gold and royal Purple. LSU wore old gold helmets and old gold pants in the fifties. Dietzel did not like purple and changed the uniform in 1957 to the present design and color scheme. The helmet was the color of the Green Bay helmet. The jersey, in the trade, was known as the UCLA stripe. So much for originality. A year later LSU won the national championship and the Tigers have been locked into this uniform since.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 6:56 pm to LayupKing
He did not like purple? I already gave the reason for the only real change of color. He changed the gold to the Green Bay yellow.
Anyway, that's the answer to all the stupid posts in this thread. It's not that complicated.
Anyway, that's the answer to all the stupid posts in this thread. It's not that complicated.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 7:17 pm to semjase
In my childhood I had a pennant that was my father's. The color was definitely old gold, no yellow hue to it.
It was so old that it was made from wool cloth and actually had holes in it from moths.
If that is any indication of the original "gold" it was far from what we see today.
It was so old that it was made from wool cloth and actually had holes in it from moths.
If that is any indication of the original "gold" it was far from what we see today.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 7:50 pm to bgtiger
In 1956 LSU wore purple jerseys. Dietzel did not like purple. For the 1957 spring game, Dietzel divided the squad into the blue and gold teams for the Blue and Gold game. You can look it up in the Advocate sports section of May 1957. His unhappiness with purple may of had something to do with the team's won loss record in 1956. In 1959, LSU away games with Florida and Kentucky were played in all yellow uniforms. Same color as the helmet.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 11:43 pm to TNTigerman
Sorry, I should've clarified. Columbia chooses the colors of the shirt. Someone with CLC and/or LSU then decides if Columbia (or any brand) will be allowed to put an LSU mark on the shirt. The colors of the embroidery or print of the logo must match the LSU standard, but the shirt fabric doesn't necessarily have to match exactly.
Official LSU uniforms and coaches shirts/hats/etc may be the only things that have each color 100% chosen and approved by LSU.
Official LSU uniforms and coaches shirts/hats/etc may be the only things that have each color 100% chosen and approved by LSU.
Posted on 5/19/15 at 12:25 am to Ponchy Tiger
Manufacturers have to follow very strict color scheme guidelines: LINK.
Posted on 5/19/15 at 12:27 am to kjacksonp
Looks black to me
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